Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-24, 09:14

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56.64 should work fine https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=35051&start=40#p411639 go down with cpu clock by 1/2 and try again OK, I tried that with driver 56.72 because it is the last one I installed and it's very close. I underclocked the CPU to 300 MHz and put the voltage down from 2.7 to …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-23, 22:32

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OK, it doesn't work (the FX5500 PCI). Philscomputerlab has it working on the same board. Maybe it's because he is using REV 5 and I'm using 4.1 The problem is only with OpenGL. It works with DirectX all the way up to 9.0. The desktop goes all the way up to 1920x1200 at 32-bit color and seems …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-19, 12:25

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I received the FX 5600 and installed it and. . . Three beeps and nothing on the screen, so I think it isn't going to even boot. The fans also slow down a lot. I think it must be drawing too much power. I got an FX 5500 PCI coming. Philscomputerlab used it on this mobo so I think it should work fine …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-13, 18:47

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Yeah I think G400 Max keeps scaling up to about a P3 1000. On a Pentium III 1GHz? I can run a Radeon HD 4650 on a P3 1400 and maybe it's a little bottlenecked, but it is much faster than a G400. It will run a SSE2 hacked version of skyrim on medium settings. I think the G400 is much too slow to …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-13, 18:37

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GeForce FX cards hit the CPU harder than older GeForce cards. A forum member ran tests showing that years ago. Not good for a K6. And newer drivers can cause problems too with systems/games. Get something old from 2000-2001. If a GeForce FX, get 45.23 or 43.45 since they are about the oldest …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-12, 22:50

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Just tried the 6.2 drivers. Now it just crashes.

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-12, 22:15

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forgot to ask... Is it bad to install DirectX 9.0c on a system that doesn't support it? I updated to the latest DirectX for win 2k.

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-12, 22:04

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"OpenGL-Performance: Quake 3 Arena" score was "K6-3 450Mhz @ 49.8fps, Celeron 400 (Mendocino) @ 52.8fps" Radeon 8500 is the best you can try, still good luck with drivers, agp on ss7, and crashes. Maybe there is something wrong with the driver? With the Radeon 7000 I am only getting like 10 fps in …

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Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-12, 12:58

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I have just finished my AMD K6 build and I am looking for the best graphics card for it. I know that there are already threads dedicated to this, however, mine is a bit different. I don't want to use a Voodoo or something super high end from that era. I'd rather use a more modern card that is still …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-03-12, 12:43

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I have moved on to a new motherboard, but I just wanted to update this thread so that people can gain some insight if they are having a similar problem. I am not 100% sure, but I believe my problem with this mobo's IDE controller was that it was not UDMA compatible and thus will probably only work …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-28, 07:15

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I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system.. you will be forced to run an old version, I think after a certain patch (1.4?) they started using SSE2 which increased performance greatly for newer CPUs but broke compatibility with Athlon XP and older... in any case, …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-28, 06:44

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What happens if you run a benchmark that does read/write cycles on the hard disk? Furthermore, check if the problem only occurs some time after booting, or is it present right at boot? If the former is the case, you're looking at something that fails after the system has heated up, e.g. a bad …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-23, 23:51

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2009: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 4GB DDR2 800 64GB G.Skill SSD Windows XP Pro 64-bit 2019: 2 x Intel Xeon X5680 (6-core 3.3 GHz each) 40GB DDR3 1333 ECC RAM (it was super cheap so why not) GTX 1070 Ti 250GB Samsung EVO SSD 32GB Crucial SSD (for OS only) Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 2019: DEX desktop …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-23, 19:07

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Have you tried using something like OnTrack Disk Manager like they did in the old days? I have not. Since I loaded the 128GB BIOS patch and the BIOS is reading the size correctly, the detection is not the problem. There is something wrong with the IO. Would using a drive overlay also help with …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-22, 20:32

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Have you tried using something like OnTrack Disk Manager like they did in the old days? I have not. Since I loaded the 128GB BIOS patch and the BIOS is reading the size correctly, the detection is not the problem. There is something wrong with the IO. Would using a drive overlay also help with …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-22, 17:27

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There was no DMA option in the BIOS. OK, I managed to find an old 20GB IDE drive at the bottom of a bin (no, not outdoors lol). I plugged it in and. . . It gets farther! It detects the drive as the right size. It allows me to partition and format it. It copies all the windows 2000 files. It reboots …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-22, 12:26

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I just found this: http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php?/to … on-an-sis-5571/ Maybe it has to do with DMA or other IDE mode enabled in BIOS? I don't know if it is enabled or not, but I can check the BIOS in a few hours.

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Re: Windows 2000 inaccessible boot device 8.4GB BIOS - solution

Posted on 2019-01-22, 11:32

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Hm, As fars as I recall, you could try some dynamic drive overly software (DDO) for Windows 9x. This could work around the BIOS limitations. However, care has to be taken here. It could be the case that Win9x uses a different drive geometry than Windows 2000 then. By the way, that also caused some …

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Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-01-22, 11:30

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This is somewhat of a continuation of my thread here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=64580 I am having a problem with the IDE controller on MSI MS-5146 (SiS 5571 chipset) socket 7 motherboard. The problem involves random read errors from the drive after installing an OS. The only OS I …

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Re: Can a new vintage mobo have bulging caps?

Posted on 2019-01-21, 07:45

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I just replaced about 25 Nichicon caps on an Asus TUSL2 due to bulging. Brand on the cap nor the board makes any difference when it's from the cap plague era. I recap and re-fan every PSU that isn't brand new as a matter of course. Motherboards, I am planning to start at the PII era and work my way …

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